Larimer County commissioners will vote Tuesday on an ordinance that would greatly restrict panhandling and impose fines up to $1,000 for violations.

The proposal was drafted in response to citizen complaints about aggressive panhandling, particularly on East Mulberry Avenue. The ordinance would be enforced by the sheriff’s department and apply in all of unincorporated Larimer County, including highway on-ramps, another trouble spot, according to commissioners.

The ordinance would prohibit:

• Panhandling between 30 minutes after sunset and 30 minutes before sunrise.

• Panhandling on medians, sidewalks where pedestrians might be impeded, public buses, parking lots or garages, or anywhere else that the transaction cannot be completed in a legal parking space and within 100 feet of schools, automatic teller machines or bus stops.

• Soliciting or accepting money from occupants of vehicles traveling on public roads.

• Stepping into a public road, bike lane, street gutter or parking space to solicit or accept money.

• Panhandling directed at anyone entering or exiting a parked vehicle, in a vehicle stopped on a street or within the exterior patio area of a food or drinking establishment.

• Persistent requests for money after a panhandling request has been denied.

• Touching subjects of solicitation in the course of panhandling.

• Soliciting funds from anyone younger than 18, older than 60 or with a disability or “substantial physical or mental impairment.”